The Birds

Front Cover
Bloomsbury Academic, Aug 26, 1998 - Performing Arts - 96 pages
Camille Paglia draws together in this text the aesthetic, technical and mythical qualities of Alfred Hitchcock's 'The Birds' (1963), and analyzes its depiction of gender and family relations. A film about anxiety, sexual power and the violence of nature, it is quintessential Hitchcock.

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Camille Paglia is Professor of Humanities at The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA. She is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson, Sex, Art, and American Culture, and Vamps & Tramps: New Essays.

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